Skip Applebaum

General

• Award-winning author

• The author of such benchmark works as the Bryce Prize winning Failure to Conform and Winter Mark-nominated The Idea Race
• Has also won The Mintz Award for a series of public-domain columns he wrote over the course of 265.

Slow News Day

• He and his entourage were ejected from the Maitland Museum late on the evening of 21-SEP-06, for "rowdiness and disrupting the experience of other patrons."

• Applebaum himself admitted the allegations were correct, but said that museum personnel were "making a big deal out of really nothing at all.

• Said entourage included:
  • Grace Curate, society heiress and disreputable girl-about-town.
  • Kay Bedling, brilliant young PCAG contender.

RECON!

It was revealed on 29-JAN-07 that Applebaum is a Reconstructionist.

Applebaum Suffers Crisis of Faith According to close friends, award-winning author Skip Applebaum is in the throes of a "significant personal crisis" and has gone to the Reconstructionist compound "to spend some time contemplating the nature of faith."

References

• Perplex City Sentinel
  • article, 22-SEP-06 "Prominent Author Ejected from Museum" (link)
  • More news in brief, 27-JAN-07 "Applebaum Suffers Crisis of Faith"

• Quirky Acuity, Violet's blog
  • entry, 16-JAN-07 "Cursed" (link)